![]() ![]() There’s a special tension between the eccentric, avant-garde greatness of that early Johns-its virtues register even in the lone photo that survives of the window-and the fact that the painting, and thus the entire Johns “project” that got launched with his flags, was first revealed in a vitrine meant to move merchandise. Young Seventh Floor.” And sure enough, behind that scroll stood two mannequins done up in lovely pale dresses, just right to clothe youth for the coming spring season.Ī second, more unexpected scroll, placed right beside the one selling Lanz, read: “A painting by Jasper Johns, one of the young American artists who has worked with us on window displays.” And there indeed, hanging behind the mannequins in their “young” clothes, stood that painting, equally fresh and similarly pale: it was Johns’s great, vast, landmark White Flag-the first major Johns seen anywhere, getting its premiere in a store window. In genteel cursive, it read: “Young American Clothes by Lanz. In January of 1956, Bonwit Teller, a high-end department store on Fifth Avenue in New York, placed a fancy scroll at the front of one of its window displays. Vogelman and Lauren Young, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy, Philadelphia, and Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York City, through February 13, 2022 ![]() Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, curated by Carlos Basualdo and Scott Rothkopf with Sarah B. Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric (3 panels), 78 1/4 × 120 3/4 inches. © 2021 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS). ![]()
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